Battle of L'Ossuaire

The Battle of L'Ossuaire occurred in the autumn of 1940 during World War II. French Resistance fighter Sean Devlin succeeded in destroying a German radio outpost at an old abbey in Lorraine, known as "L'Ossuaire", freeing the area of German control.

Following the occupation of France, the Wehrmacht took over an abbey in Lorraine and converted it into an experimental radar facility, using the nuns as human shields to prevent the British Royal Air Force from bombing it. SOE agent Graham Wilcox, having been informed that French Resistance fighter Sean Devlin was capable of taking on the Germans by himself, tasked Devlin with destroying the facility. Devlin, a one-man army, drove into L'Ossuaire's grounds in a German military vehicle and engaged in a shootout with the German soldiers, clearing them from the vicinity of the targets. He then proceeded to destroy the large radio towers, radar emplacements, and other targets outside of the abbey before heading inside. Devlin took out two machine-gun emplacements before shooting up the radar control panels, disabling the emplacement. With L'Ossuaire's facility destroyed, the Germans were unable to use it, and the area around L'Ossuaire was liberated from Nazi control; the German presence was reduced to a few foot and vehicle patrols.